Part of learning to write is learning how to push through writer’s block. Interestingly enough, my struggle to write in many ways is not writer’s block at all, but a true struggle to write. And this struggle is worth writing about about.
Let me explain.
On one hand there are the normal signs of writer’s block. I am tired at the end of the day, and sometimes do not want to write. I write all day, be it an email here and there, or an article or even a sermon. At the end of this kind of day, I am sick of writing. These become barriers to anything that may be worth writing about and definitely obstacles to writing well. These I have experienced here, and will continue to experience not just in Korea, but throughout my writing life.
My struggle to write is somewhat different.
I struggle to write because nothing worth writing about, or safe to write about—given my job and confidential requirement—has happened to me. In a very real way, I get up and walk less than five minutes to my office and back. On an adventurous day, I get to go another five-minute walk to the headquarters and see more people that those that work in my office. The struggle is not so much about writing than it is about finding something interesting to write about.
It is through this struggle that I find little things that I have missed. Those little things, each and every one, are worth telling a story about. They are worth writing about.
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